Stacking chairs



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SEVERIN B. HENDRICKSON BY flmfiL-m 4 M ATTORNEYS United States PatentOffice STACKING CHAIRS Severin B. Hendrickson, Templeton, Mass.,assignor to Heywood-Wakefield Company, Gardner, Mass., a corporation ofMassachusetts Application June 10, 1959, Serial No. 819,377 1 Claim.(Cl. 155-2) This invention relates to chairs, and more particularly tolight chairs adapted'for stacking.

The objects and features of my invention will best be understood andappreciated from the following detailed description of a preferredembodiment thereof, selected for purposes of illustration, and shown inthe accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of the chair taken from the upper frontleft hand side;

Fig. 2 is a view in perspective from the rear;

Fig. 3 is a view in perspective from the side; and

Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of a plurality of the chairs of myinvention shown as stacked.

My invention consists in a tubular frame chair having rear legs 10inclined generally from a wide point at the base to a narrower point atthe top, where they are secured to and support a back rest 12. The rearlegs 10 are integrally connected to and support horizontal seat supporttubes 14 which extend forwardly and then bend downwardly to form frontleg portions 16. Between the front leg portions 16 and the lowerportions of the legs 10, I provide inwardly curved tie bars 18. A seat20 is secured to the horizontal supports 14 by suitable means andextends laterally thereof a short distance.

The chair of my invention as above described is essenitally ofconventional configuration and employs essentially conventionalelements. However, it has one particular feature which I intend toemphasize and claim in this application; namely, that of stacking in asecure arrangement. This I accomplish with my invention by 2,936,024Patented May 10, 1960 the interrelationship between the outward tilt ofthe rear legs 10 and the overlap of the seat 20 beyond the horizontalsupports 14, in combination with the inward sweep of the tie bars 18.The rear side corners of the seat 20 extend outwardly of the braces 14to provide somewhat of a notched or recessed area adapted to receive thelower portions of rear legs 10 of another chair of similar design andshape. In this way the chair is stacked with the rear legs more or lesslocked in position just behind the seat 20 of the chair below it. Thetie bars 18 of the upper chair then nest along the seat 20 supportingthe upper chair against rocking. I regard this as highly advantageousand intend to claim the same herein.

Having thus described and disclosed a preferred embodiment of myinvention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States is:

A chair comprising tubular rear legs disposed in outward slopingattitude, a back rest connected to and supported by said rear legs,horizontal braces secured to said rear legs extending forwardlytherefrom, front legs integral with and connected to said horizontalsupport ele- -ments, a seat connected to and supported by saidhorizontal support elements, the sides of said seat extending outwardlyfrom said horizontal support elements and the side rear corners of saidseat defining adjacent to said horizontal support elements a recessedarea, said rear legs being positioned apart by a dimension adapted tofit into said recessed area of a second chair constructed identicallywith said chair, fore and aft tie rods between said front and rear legscurved inwardly and underlying said seat, whereby stacking said chairwith another chair of identical configuration brings the tie rods of theupper chair into supporting relation with the seat of the lower chairand the rear legs of the upper chair fitting into the recessed areas ofsaid lower chair to form a securely stacked combination.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,664,356 Dellert Mar. 27, 1928 2,362,426 Wyatt Nov. 7, 1944 2,699,814Kahn Jan. 18, 1955

